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    Palliative and end-of-life care must become a priority in healthcare, a cancer charity has said. Macmillan Cancer Support said emergency departments were not the right places to care for terminally ill people. Their comments come after new research conducted by Macmillan and the NI Cancer Registry at Queen's University. The report highlights the need for planning and communication around end-of-life care. It also found late diagnosis of cancer to be a problem. Among the research's findings is that three quarters of cancer patients who died in Northern Ireland in 2015 were admitted to A&E at least once in the last year of their lives. "Emergency departments cannot provide the very specialist care needed by cancer patients", said Heather Monteverde, Macmillan's Head of Service. Read full story Source: BBC News, 8 August 2019
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    Researchers at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham carried out a study on 8,585 patients and staff using the Lifelight app. Using a selfie taken on a smartphone, and the ambient light that bounces off the skin, the app carries out calculations and tells the user the resulting rates. Among the hundreds of people who took part in the Vision-D project, 1,295 were diagnosed with previously unidentified high blood pressure during what was the largest digital physiological study in history. Developer Xim has brought the technology’s accuracy in line with current NHS equipment. It also measures a person’s respiratory rate. Hopes are high it will win approval from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - paving the way for it to be used by health care providers and patients. Read full story Source: Portsmouth News, 30 July 2019
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    A bullying culture still “persists” at Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT 18 months after a major governance scandal was exposed, a senior Parliamentarian has told health ministers. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 8 August 2019
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    New research released by Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust has revealed the extent to which women who have physical disabilities are discriminated against when attempting to undergo cervical screenings. The charity surveyed 335 women for the investigation who have health conditions including spinal muscular atrophy, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, paraplegia and cerebral palsy. According to the study's findings, 88% of the participants felt that it is more difficult for a women with a physical disability to attend a cervical screening and just under half of the participants said that they had purposely chosen not to attend a smear test because of a negative, past experience they'd had due to their disability. Robert Music, Chief Executive of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, said: ""It is not acceptable that women with a physical disability are often faced with additional hurdles or even being denied access to this potentially lifesaving test." Read full story Source: Independent, 8 August 2019
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    NHS to set up national AI lab

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    The NHS in England is setting up a national artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory to enhance care of patients and research. The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said AI had "enormous power" to improve care, save lives and ensure doctors had more time to spend with patients. He has announced £250m will be spent on boosting the role of AI within the health service. Clinical trials have proven AIs are as good as leading doctors at spotting lung cancer, skin cancer, and more than 50 eye conditions from scans. This has the potential to let doctors focus on the most urgent cases and rule out those that do not need treatment. Other tools have been developed that can predict ovarian cancer survival rates and help choose which treatment should be given. However, AI will pose new challenges, including protecting patient data. Read full story Source: BBC News, 8 August 2019
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    Thanks for sharing @Danielle Haupt Although newsletters do take time to collate and produce it's a great way to share ideas and information and connect staff - brilliant that you take the time out to produce this with your teams. I'd love to hear on the hub other examples of how teams are communicating with each other.
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    This seminar will bring together policymakers and key stakeholders to examine the next steps for the continuing integration of health and social care services in Scotland. Areas for discussion in the agenda include: Shaping integration to meet future demand: supporting prevention, meeting demographic needs and moving forward on transformation of services Identifying and addressing the barriers to delivering further integration Delivering high quality health and social care services: effective regulation, improving standards and supporting change Supporting integration of services: delivering effective governance and accountability, ensuring value for money and engaging with patients and communities. View full agenda Book a place
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    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) indicates that more than a million machines are still on the decade-old operating system with less than six months until Microsoft ceases support for Windows 7. In answer to a written parliamentary question from shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jo Platt, former Department of Health and Social Care Minister Jackie Doyle-Price said that the NHS operates about 1.37 million PCs. As of the end of last month, some 1.05 million of these, equating to 76% of the overall total, still run on Windows 7, she added. Platt – whose parliamentary question recently revealed that there are still 2,300 computers across the NHS running Windows XP, for which support ended five years ago – claimed that the widespread use of Windows 7 is “deeply concerning”. She added: “The WannaCry cyberattack two years ago starkly proved the dangers of operating outdated software. Unless the government swiftly acts and learns from their past mistakes, they are risking a repeat of WannaCry. Protecting public data and computer systems should be a highest priority of government...". Read full story Source: Public Technology.net, 30 July 2019
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    In a recent BMJ 'Head to head', the authors argue whether the World Health Organization's (WHO) surgery safety checklist saves lives. Studies show that the WHO's surgery checklist saves lives around the world, say Alex Haynes and Atul Gawande. But David Urbach and Justin Dimick argue that there’s not enough evidence to say for sure. Read full story (paywalled) Source: BMJ, 5 August 2019
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    A leading expert on learning disability services will work with the NHS to review the circumstances and lessons of the death of Oliver McGowan, a young teenager with learning disabilities. NHS England has announced that Dr Celia Ingham Clark, England’s Medical Director for Professional Leadership and Clinical Effectiveness, will oversee the completion of the learning disability mortality review (LeDeR) of Oliver’s death. Fiona Ritchie, an independent consultant, will chair the review which aims to ensure there is the necessary learning from deaths of people with a learning disability, working with the McGowan family. Ms Ritchie, the independent chair, will now take forward – with the family and Dr. Ingham Clark – finalising the terms of reference for review and overseeing the completion. Following agreement with Oliver’s family, further experts will join an oversight group, which will provide specialist clinical input and advice as needed to Ms Ritchie ensuring that the review process is thorough and the final findings are robust. Read full story Source: NHS England, 7 August 2019
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    More than 4,000 women in the Republic of Ireland were not told the results of cervical cancer smear tests due to an IT problem, a report has revealed. It found in about 870 of the cases, results letters were not issued to the women or their GP. In the other 3,200 cases the results were issued to GPs, but not the women. The report concluded there was not proper due diligence and risk assessment in appointing a new lab as a cervical check test facility. Quest Diagnostics Chantilly Laboratory was appointed in an effort to help clear a major backlog of cervical cancer test samples. This, the review said, was well intentioned but no testing took place to see if it could be seamlessly integrated into the way the system operated. Read full story Source: BBC News, 6 August 2019
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    The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has launched a new online feedback form so that anyone involved or interested in HSIB's healthcare safety investigations can "tell us what they think". There are options to give feedback on national investigations in general, specific national investigations, maternity investigations and HSIB in general. The feedback form is available from the HSIB website Source: HSIB, 1 August 2019
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    Twenty hospitals in England due to receive an extra £850m funding for upgrades to outdated facilities and new equipment have been revealed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally announce the plans – part of NHS spending pledges totalling £1.8bn – at a Lincolnshire hospital today. Ahead of his visit to Lincolnshire, Mr Johnson said the new money – less than 1% of the annual NHS budget – would mean "more beds, new wards, and extra life-saving equipment". But responding to the funding announcement, the Health Foundation said "years of under-investment in the NHS's infrastructure means this extra money risks being little more than a drop in the ocean". Ben Gershlick, from the charity, added that NHS facilities in England were "in major disrepair", with a £6bn maintenance backlog.
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    Together with The Council for Health Service Accreditation of South Africa (COHSASA) and Mediclinic International, ISQua is delighted to host its 36th International Conference in Cape Town. Further information and book tickets
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    Event from the King's Fund in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society. Attend to hear about: updates on what the NHS long-term plan means for dementia how integrated care systems are designing integrated dementia services approaches to dementia as a co-morbidity how to make best use of the workforce and improve personalised care moving towards a long-term solution for health and care. Find out more
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    GPs say they are misdiagnosing patients because appointment slots are too short. A survey of family doctors found more than one in three said they had failed to properly diagnose cases because they did not have enough time to fully assess them. Typically, the time slot to see a patient is around 10 minutes. The poll of 200 GPs found that 95 per cent of those surveyed said such slots were too short to do their jobs safely. Read full story Source: The Telegraph, 25 July 2019
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    Nurses from Northwest Pennsylvania convened at a billboard calling for greater limitations on the number of patients a nurse can attend to during a shift. The advertisement, located on state Route 8 outside of Centerville, is one of two billboards that Nurses of Pennsylvania, a non-profit advocacy group in the US for nurses and patients, crowd funded in order to raise awareness about the issue of safe staffing and possible legislation. Registered nurse Kimberly Aldrich, said: “What gets me is that this is not an unprecedented idea in Pennsylvania... When we drop our kids off at daycare, we can rest assured that the facility is legally required to adhere to limits on the number of kids a childcare worker can be assigned. Why should we accept less if our kids are in the hospital?” Read full story Source: The Titusville Herald, USA, 24 July 2019
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    @Kirsty Wood Of course! I'll message you with some text you can use. Thanks for promoting the hub ?
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    The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been found guilty of maladministration over its handling of a fit and proper person test complaint which led to a £200,000 investigation by an NHS trust. A Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) investigation identified “several instances of maladministration” in the CQC’s handling of a complaint by former consultant paediatrician David Drew. Ombudsman Rob Behrens has now written to the Health Secretary, NHS England, Chair of the Commons Health Committee Sarah Wollaston, and Chair of the Parliamentary and Constitutional Affairs Committee Bernard Jenkin with a copy of the PHSO investigation. In his letter. Mr Behrens said: “I believe this case exemplifies the damaging impact that poor handling of allegations can have on people’s faith in the ability of the CQC to identify and act on misconduct when whistleblowers come forward. This underlines the need for reform to the [fit and proper person] system and the recommendations from the Kark review to be swiftly implemented.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 24 July 2019
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    ME/CFS - leading edge research and its implications for medical professionals. This educational conference is designed for all NHS healthcare providers, decision makers, university lecturers, researchers, medical and healthcare students, teaching staff, benefits agency representatives and service users. Expert speakers will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the latest cutting edge scientific research trying to provide answers of why ME patients experience an abnormal response to exercise/activity, when compared to healthy controls. Register here
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    The course begins with an introduction to non-technical skills (NTS). This outlines key non-technical skills/human factors involved in caring for patients, such as effective communication, anticipation and planning, and taking a leadership role. It then covers 5 to 6 scenarios during the day with a debrief after each scenario, focusing on the key NTS points. To be realistic, the scenarios use high-fidelity simulation. Register here
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    This day is for ST6-8 Paediatrics Trainees from Yorkshire and Humber Region only. Register here
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    Dr Max Pemberton, columnist for the Daily Mail, gives his opinion of the app that offers patients a GP consultation via their mobile phone. In theory, it sounds great: the patient can dial up, speak to and (via phone camera) see a doctor, who could be anywhere. However, how effective can such consultations be? "I have been able to test this service for myself — and what I have experienced left me worried", says Dr Pemberton. Read full story Source: The Spectator, 20 July 2019
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    Now in its 24th year, the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare is a biannual gathering of healthcare professionals in quality improvement and patient safety. Organised by the BMJ and IHI, The International Forum supports and energises the movement for healthcare improvement and connects healthcare leaders and practitioners worldwide to improve outcomes for patients and communities. Book your place
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    Infection Prevention & Control Conference, part of Health Care, formally Patient First, bring you a two day dedicated conference and exhibition supporting nurses, doctors and infection prevention and control professionals looking for solutions to prevent infection and improve care. Further information
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